with the week's top headlines this is the week with me live in moscow libya's government keeps up its deadly siege of the. town has fallen they have also been reports of used chemical weapons against the civilian population. has been witness testimonies of what exactly is going on in the besieged town of. these are the pictures the world has chosen not to see dismembered bodies random killings dying women and children for three weeks the libyan city of bani walid has been under siege armed militia gangs patrolled the streets losing houses bulldozing properties and shooting indiscriminately you want to hear all most of whom are buying machinery but. nobody is nor a connection there is no communication no i don't know anything that is the real.

was not able to. connect with each other people are so concerned for the safety of their families they don't want to be identified you know that it was chaotic challis and they fired at harbors and shouted indiscriminately more than two thousand families have fled seven families are with us at the moment and yesterday we fled to the valley but they were firing attacks even their their families who died in the shelling children died to their frighted by women and children straight to the head it started with the order for the army to use all means necessary to rid the former gadhafi stronghold of all his supporters there were accused of kidnappings and murdering of former militia men credited with capturing the libyan leader last year i would misses and doctors on the scene say people are being fired at with gas called the shells r.t. sources report seeing militia trying to hide and remove bodies of those killed by chemical weapons i can confirm that these militias used internationally prohibited

weapons they used phosphorous bombs and nerve gas we have documented all these in videos recorded the missiles they used on the white phosphorus raining down from these missiles many people died without being wounded shot they died as a result of gases the red cross is to mates more than twenty five thousand people have so far been made homeless with fiji's who in the confusion of the past few days try to return home after the army announced the city had fallen and they are now stranded on the desert highway in fear and panic. look at this. this good this gun and this people know this thing now why you don't know one week now this is the outside and didn't know what they were doing when i was leaving when i think when when one of the government explosions and rockets about our hands i saw the dad but the general national council denies the killings despite the evidence to the contrary where the government force

a. place where i would go of course there will be. small mistakes but the whole picture of the whole thing is being handled better for . we are taking care of all the family and it's not only the libyan authorities that are in denial western governments and mainstream media have also chosen to be silent prompting the charge of double standards to be leveled at them but when it is their. militias who were. criticizing militias the chaotic scenes of a throwback to the long running rivalry between with the dense of bani walid and misrata a city khadafi laid siege to they also show the weakness of the new government's authority over former rebel militias which always had the chance but essentially do

what they like. power so it's a leech is a message to all of them across libya wherever they are whoever you are and however strong you are and whoever your backers are the revolution should win. it's years since independence came to this oil rich country but little seems to have changed for ordinary libyans many of the crimes gadhafi was accused of are now being laid at the foot of the general national council a reminder that for many the arab spring turned out to be a very cold winter here r.t. beirut. and russia has raised the issue at the united nations urging members to take peaceful steps to stop the bloody assault on the people of bani walid at the motion however it was shot down by the u.s. which ultimately spearheaded the humanitarian war against libya's leader moammar gadhafi last year more now from new york with r.t. is more important. while the united nations has focused much attention this week on

the ongoing conflicts in syria and mali russia's efforts to address the death and destruction taking place in libya was blocked by the united states washington refused to support a security council press statement drafted by russia calling for the resolution of violence in bani walid which has been under siege for weeks the u.s. delegation cited a further need for consultations but meanwhile the russian ambassador to the u.n. for tali churkin says that it's quite strange the u.s. would block a press statement condemning the use of force in dealing with libya's political problems just one month after a deadly attack in benghazi claimed the lives of four diplomats embassador churkin said it is difficult in this case to explain the u.s. delegations actions in a rational terms now russia's draft press statement calls on the libyan authorities to take urgent steps to resolve the conflict by peaceful means and to preserve the rights of all libyan citizens it also expressed concern about the significant

escalation of violence in and around the city of money will lead libyan forces launched a full scale it's not in town more than three weeks ago accusing it of being controlled by some orders to former libyan leader moammar gadhafi gadhafi was overthrown in early two thousand and eleven at that time western media outlets made libya for the excuse today as the fighting and body will leave continues most mainstream news outlets have remained silent not reporting on what some are calling a humanitarian catastrophe. in new york. and the current situation in libya is an inconvenient truth for those who back the regime change there and that's why they're now turning a blind eye to human rights abuses in bani walid according to author and journalist bill cluck. let's think back to every twenty eleven we couldn't because the newspaper in the u.k. or us or put on the b.b.c. or c.n.n. without hearing about what was going on in libya a humanitarian disaster let's hold colonel gadhafi forces were killing lots of

people there were dangers of a massive massacre in benghazi and because of that we went to war that that was a reasonable war and today the situation leader is much worse you got a humanitarian catastrophe taken place the number of people killed since needing to be has gone up but by between ten and twenty times we've got massacres going on at the moment and their silence complete silence here in the u.k. and in the u.s. they got what they want what they wanted they got really good at that they've got a pro western government in power now in tripoli they've taken control of the oil industry this privatization western corporations really you know they don't really be honest about what's going on about about human rights abuses the fact that demonstrations are banned throughout the country it's time to move on on to syria of course. louis. thanks for joining us here on r.t. it's a day eight feverish week in the american presidential race as candid as burst into a sprint for the last leg of the campaign barack obama and mitt romney held their

final debate focusing heavily on that a foreign policy that once again both candidates plans bore striking similarities and antiwar activist brian becker says u.s. policy though will stay the same at the end of the day no matter who is at the helm . u.s. foreign policy regardless of whether the party in the white house is the republicans or the democrats is consistent based on principally the military industrial complex and big oil i think if we take the debate in the reflective positions of the two candidates and staged it as a theatrical production we would we would borrow the words of william shakespeare and say it's much ado about nothing fundamentally the two candidates represent a foreign policy based on the new empire the american empire that superceded the british empire at the close of world war two i think the candidates have to be very careful because while they want to position themselves as the best defenders of the

empire the best defenders of the military industrial complex they also have to recognize that the american people are sick and tired of war after war after war and sick and tired of having the national treasury drained so that tens of thousands hundreds of thousands of public sector workers jobs are lost but the military coffers keep growing and growing. although the republican and democrat debate held few surprises and even less diversity that was not the case for the third party debate but largely ignored by the mainstream media for other u.s. presidential candidates gathered together to lay out their own vastly different plans for america is just a little of what they have to say. the president has assumed dictatorial rights to put us in prison at his pleasure without charge or without trial we are on the road toward to him and that's not an exaggeration the biggest threat to our national security is the fact that we're bankrupt we need to retrench rather than

trying to be the policeman of the world we need to put an end to the use of drones and actually lead not to lead this development of a new arms race but to lead in an international treaty and the convention to permanently banned the use of drones we're printing and borrowing money to the tune of forty three cents out of every dollar we spend yeah sixteen trillion dollars is bearing down on us and as nominal johnson say if we could well be like germany after world war i. but we did have a chance to speak exclusively to a number of the candidates taking part in that debate one of them was dr jill stein from the green party of america earlier this month she was arrested for protesting the first presidential debate she did take a moment to tell us exactly why she went. most of the american public doesn't even know that there are other candidates running so you know that's why i went to the

gateway to the debate at hofstra university two weeks ago to demand that the debate be opened up and i was arrested and handcuffed to a chair for eight hours unfortunately this is what our democracy is looking like we are squandering trillions of dollars right now on wars for oil that we don't need on tax breaks for the wealthy and on bailouts for wall street forty billion a month now being spent to bail out the bankers once again so we can stop all that the establishment parties are quaking in their boots that word will get out and in fact if it does there are enough people to turn the results of this election on its head is that going to happen i'm not holding my breath but if we're ever going to win it we've got to begin it. well the final third party presidential debate is still to come and it will be hosted at all our washington d.c. studio we'll be broadcasting it live for both our american and international

viewers also though throughout next week i will be looking in depth of the political landscape in america in the run up to the country's elections. what lies ahead for auction. mobilized for a. for the going to nine percent who is election victories go. to the twenty ninth. day starts at five am in the winter. story hundred sheep in the mountains. having studied accounting but you just. dictated that he would take on the can of these animals after his father. he's just made camp at their winter farms did setting up his ute the traditional two fenian round tent made of diskin. his p.c.

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a report on. morning news today violence is once again flared up. in these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. china operations are all day. it's a pleasure to have you with us on this sunday here on r t this week saw the anniversary of one of the most radical steps the e.u. took to fight the ongoing financial crisis european leaders agreed on a massive debt write off for greece sandon boosting the block spell out fund but as sarah further reports the economic contagion is far from gone the main symptom that

of the nation's outrage still plaguing parts of the. hitting back at a stair it's a people all over a year to continuing to fight against this in measures that are biting deeper and deeper into the public and private purpose of many usa nations clashes with police break out in the north of italy of thousands marched against the government in the capital reign in what was dubbed anti monte day similar scenes were witnessed in the trades west bank is turned on the last two very against never ending government cuts but we feel like we are now under a percentage by our government that they are doing this that we are no we don't agree with them and we are telling them on the diamond but they don't listen as it is start youngest spread across year thousands of people have taken to the street and it's not just in madrid for in greece to italy big you're using countries and small this is a euro crisis that doesn't discriminate affecting people of all ages and from all

walks of life here in spain the unemployment figures now top a whopping twenty five percent this is a younger generation that's been hit the hardest in the stats for the country you see the half the sixteen to twenty four year olds in the house of work everything you see increasing unemployment poverty. the ferns. in people here police offices. dividing the protesters from the governments that more and more a growing to live with that of g.t. you'll find many is than joining the marches lower enforcement a feeling the pinch the need amongst many protesters is greg craig too many times before and still they tell us nothing seems to change. it is actually not to cut their spending but to invest more in the economy to invest in growth to make

sure that there are jobs and the only way to ultimately. get out of this is to grow not to cut your way out of it so one of the main arguments of the people here is that it is if you actually listen to the people or not to go into interest from abroad you will come up with a lot more sensible and a lot more rational response to this was a dogmatic insistence on the stairs he has seen successive governments across the isolated from their electorate and amongst the un members themselves divisions a widening things witnessing this independently pennsylvania in the basque country those demanding freedom and electing separatist politicians the police is fighting enough surge of radical nationalist sentiment is leading to the grace of far right and fascist greats scenes like these make it hard to believe that earlier this month even is awarded the nobel peace prize bringing stability and unity to the previously want to own continent some protest is calling it

a social muska with a massive euro white strike planned for later this month it seems as long as things continue as they are there will be no peace here so if r.t. . you're watching the weekly here on our two you know the latest peace effort for syria fell apart this week with at least two terror bombings ripping across the state of the largest attack took place in the capital damascus where at least five people were killed and many more injured in a large car bomb explosion this comes during a proposed four day cease fire to mark the muslim holiday of which some rebel groups such as the radical those who are a front rejected outright another call to carry on fighting came from the leader of al qaeda who also criticized world leaders for a loose grip on the syrian regime international affairs analyst. says the truce plan was doomed to fail. the government in syria is formed.

including. united states will this year it's turkey itself very many of the countries like kate france your money is providing the libyan support so they're really in qatar we know that they're providing token jordan that's well they don't want repeats they want to remove the government of syria from both for sure but for the us side. they believe that the rebels believe that they've got the momentum they've got the support from the outside world that i think they say that they're not going to abide by the states or it's because they haven't been pressured by the outside powers the back them perhaps they have even been told not to support this use for. former pakistani cricket legend turned politician imraan khan was pulled off a plane and interrogated by u.s. officials for over two hours on his way to new york from toronto he was led away for questioning over his vocal opposition to america's drone strikes in pakistan he's now demanding an apology from washington one that he isn't likely to get his

audience or we're going to score points. killing the civilians of one country in the name of security of another the united states has been doing just that for over eighty years and pakistan. there are terrorists holed up in those mountains who murdered three thousand americans they are plotting to strike again federally administered tribal areas burned bright red on the map that's where u.s. drone attacks have been killing thousands of people claiming the majority of them are militant extremists a study led by scholars from new york and stanford university's found that only around two percent of the total number of deaths were militants among the remaining several thousand victims of don't attacks hundred seventy five were children the fact of the matter remains the u.s. has been carrying out military operations in a country that it is not at war with and the international community says almost nothing about actions which are illegal by international standards the right seems

to have your. it's the stock that's it's it's the tax the financial it was the joint i think the was god's word since the rights to the thoughts of god this was back in the day islamabad and washington were all smiles each seeking to benefit from cooperation centered on dealing with the persistent taliban problem though there was a cool off in the relationship in the one nine hundred seventy s. when pakistan began working on its nuclear bomb the vows were renewed in the wake of the two thousand one world trade center bombing and the ensuing war on terror presently however there seems to be no love lost in this match i don't strike. counterproductive but. couldn't on the phone on strikes. again. it's not just the buzzing of the drones however that threatens pakistan's integrity

what was great is one of the greatest feats of the fight against terrorism this as a nation of islam of bin laden was a military operation carried out in secret and without knowledge of the pakistani authorities. here. then came the killing of twenty four pakistani soldiers in the u.s. led air strike forcing islamabad to close down the nato supply routes for seven months it was reopened only after an official apology from the u.s. secretary of state but with pakistan itself calls to cut off cooperation or submission as many see it to the u.s. get louder with every passing week pakistanis believe the united states may be giving a lot of money to their government but is at the same time taking away the country's sovereignty and killing its people in islamabad. r.t.

. ukraine are set to elect a new parliament a new voting system is in place allowing room for surprises as. reports a former boxing champion and his party may end up with enough weight to make or break the opposition. after what was the most expensive election in the history of silver and ukraine worth more than two billion us dollars polling stations have opened across the country six million voters in ukraine will elect its new parliament this election is revolutionary in many ways the voting system itself has changed dramatically now the voting takes place both on proportional seats in parliament and seats in parliament which are split in two. in the first part receipts nobody has any doubts that the ruling party the party of regions. gain the majority of the votes but the biggest surprise yet may come in the majority seats where nobody can predict the result there are many independent candidates running

for the majority recedes and they eventually could have final say inside the parliament and will be able to choose which alliance of parties they will be joining in the new coalition the opposition. has already declared to the president if they gain a majority in parliament in one way or another the biggest dark horse of this election is the former boxer who is now finished his career heavyweight champion of the world. many say that it will be klitschko who will eventually have the final say in the coalition in the forming of a new coalition inside the parliament this leaves. on what the new coalition inside the parliament will be and whether this new coalition will have enough seats in parliament to. dramatically change the outlook of the power structures in this country certainly will be bringing all the latest results in this rather

interesting vote as we get them. reporting from just a couple of minutes here on our. little bit about what he thinks ultimately should be done to try and heal europe's ailing finances just a second. what lies ahead for auction will the movement mobilize calls for a new america who stands for the ninety nine percent u.s. election a close guide monday october twenty ninth on r.t. . over a decade of north austin terrorist attack. ex hostages

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